Binge drinking on campus

By Staff reporter

"College presidents who have been blaming drinking-age laws for drunkenness at their schools had better look at their own policies. While the amount of binge drinking - downing five or more drinks in a row - remains high at colleges, it has dropped sharply among people of the same age who do not attend college."

"Last year, more than 100 college presidents and chancellors called for reconsidering the legal drinking age, which was raised to 21 by all states during the 1980s. ..."

"Now comes new evidence that the age-21 requirement has been generally effective in reducing binge drinking - except among college students. That was the conclusion of a study by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, published in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. ..."

Full article available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01wed3.html?_r=2&emc=eta1&page...?